ACD 203–02: Academic Professional Governance—Responsibilities

To describe academic professional responsibilities in governance

Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost of the University

Personnel Policies and Procedures for Academic Professionals

Academic professionals

Academic professionals have a duty to share the responsibilities and obligations of academic governance and administration of the university. These responsibilities include making recommendations concerning:

1. establishment of norms for professional responsibilities
2. policies and procedures governing salary adjustments

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3. participation in governance at the academic unit and/or university levels.

Academic professionals may also make recommendations concerning:

4. appointment and promotion of academic professional members

   These recommendations include reappointments, promotions, granting of continuing appointments, and dismissal. Responsibility in such matters shall be assumed when librarians and researchers in a particular field or activity have the chief competence for judging the work of their colleagues; in such competence it is implicit that responsibility exists to make both adverse and favorable recommendations.

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5. selection of chairs of departments and other academic administrators to whom they report.

   Academic units with five or more academic professionals may have a standing committee on professional status, composed of academic professionals, to advise the head, director, chair, or other administrative authority on personnel policies, procedures, and actions affecting academic professionals in those units.